Business Groups - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

all business units to explore the budget implications of several strategic alternatives. The following discussion will help stimulate your thinking about how your own company's budgeting process can be transformed from an exasperating... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

27 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

Walking into Harvard Business School as friends, roommates, and colleagues in 2017, Henri Pierre-Jacques (MBA 2019) and Jarrid Tingle (MBA 2019) already knew each other well. What they didn’t know yet was how their angel syndicate, Harlem... View Details

14 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

us introduce ourselves. We are HBS CPD – Harvard Business School Career & Professional Development. A – Aldrich. Aldrich Hall is one of our main academic buildings where most MBA classes are held. If you are participating in an... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Reselling Opportunity” (HBS no. 717-430). Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/719408-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-437 The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds In April 2018, the De Beers... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for General Motors? Or are those just headlights from an oncoming train? Among Harvard Business School faculty, it depends on whom you ask. The carmaker—home to such storied brands as Cadillac,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

01 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

Sales can soar when companies bundle products together into one cheaper package—Happy Meal, anyone? Yet a buyer's affinity for such deals comes with a big caveat, according to new research: These groupings are often successful only if the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

In the days since the election, more than 400 hate crimes in local schools, communities, and businesses have been reported Trump’s statements about sexually harassing women potentially give permission for a set of behaviors that undermine... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

president. An active HBS faculty member from 1970 to 1989, Chandler not only conducted some of his most important research at the School, but he also nurtured a group of younger world-class business... View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

have over 20 mothers on campus. While we still have a long way to go to make our business school classrooms, board rooms, and executive leadership teams representative of their constituents – including mothers – we are hopeful that this... View Details

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

officials, government regulators, and tent city activists. But there is one group of citizens with the power to make a difference: business leaders themselves, say Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

previously lived outside India rely significantly more on diaspora networks for business leads and financing. This is especially true for entrepreneurs who are based outside software hubs—where getting leads to new View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

Yet, she also needed an outlet for her creativity. Nneka knew her next professional stop would be combining her love for challenge and creative innovation at Harvard Business School. Making the connection at HBS At HBS, Nneka enjoyed her... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)

challenge over the next few years,” says Brewer. He describes the mix of business and a sport he loves as “a great and fortunate combination.” Putt-putt: “I don’t remember how old I was when I first picked up a club, which means I was... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, has long studied the performance of teams in the workplace. Her latest book is The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

seemed to be a different kind of conversation going on among the women. I thought it would be worthwhile to bring a group of them together to pursue these conversations further. In addition, I knew that there were (and are) a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

value, though they all understand profit as an essential outcome. HCHP firms are able to show sustained performance because they achieve the following three paradoxical goals: Performance alignment: Managing with their head, leaders develop an organizational design,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Sarah McConville | About

Business Review Group and HBP Corporate Learning lines of business, as well as HBR Enterprise sales & solutions, and strategic partnerships. She also serves as Chief Marketing Officer, driving cohesive... View Details

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

important career matter for individuals as well as for managers who want to inspire, nurture, and recruit stars. A new study by Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee on star knowledge workers, specifically security... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 May 2013
Blog Post

It’s going to be a beautiful summer…

This past weekend I was at a BBQ where techie entrepreneurs from around the valley mingled over beers and hot dogs. Someone would approach, and ask me what I did, to which I would reply that I am a business school student currently... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

2009
Working Paper

Negotiating the Path of Abraham

By: Kimberlyn Leary, James K. Sebenius and Joshua Weiss

In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle East. It begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Middle East

Citation

Read Now

Publications